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Adel Zayed
Personal Information:
Nationality: Egyptian
Date of Birth: 1979.
Place of Birth: Cairo.
Marital Status: Married.
GSM no. 054 425 4400
pension.gov.sa@azayedEmail
Personal Profile
A multi-skilled Network & Security Advisor with good all-round supervisory and technical
expertise. Very capable with a proven ability to ensure the smooth Managing of IS Security
systems and to provide IT services that will improve the efficiency and performance of a company.
Extensive practical knowledge of complex systems builds, hardware and software Security
Systems, network support, technical support and Monitoring Systems.
Looking for a new and challenging managerial position, one that will make best use of my existing
skills & experiences also further my personal development
Key competencies and skills
Managerial
 Ability to identify, understand and give priority to urgent issues.
 Able to work on cross-divisional projects.
 Experience of recruiting and training new staff.
 Skilled decision maker, problem solver, team oriented, team builder
 Able to develop, coordinate, delegate and plan work activities.
 Dealing calmly and professionally with challenging situations.
 Planning each stages of an IT project in detail, and investigating how it can affect a
business.
IT
 Over 14 years of Experience in the fields of network and Security.
 Able to identify cost-effective technical solutions that meet business needs.
 Excellent analytical, data manipulation and interrogation skills.
 Ensuring that all IT changes are managed so that they minimize downtime and risk of any
inconvenience.
 Developing and maintaining the infrastructure and information security Management
systems.

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Having extensive hands-on experience on all lot of network & Security Technologies:-
 Cisco Routers, Switches, Cisco ASA, and IPS
 Forigate FW, FortiWeb WAF and Forti Analyzer
 Palo Alto FW
 FireEye APT
 Websense web filtering Gateway & Clear Swift Email Gateway
 Juniper Switching and SRX firewall.
 MacAfee IPS
 F5 LTM & GTM
 Riverbed WAN Optimizer
 Nexthink End Point Analytics
 Virtualization technology “VSphere and VDI”
 Windows services AD, DHCP, DNS, WINS, TMG 2010, and Exchange 2007/2010.
 Network management S/W ", Ipswich, Manage engine and solarwinds
Academic qualifications
- BS Communication and computer Engineering 2001,
- Faculty of Engineering – Ain shams University.
- Very Good grade.
Certificates
 CISM Certified
 CISSP Certified
 CCIE Security w.
 ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
 CEH ver8 Certified
 Project Management Professional Certified "PMP".
 ITIL Foundation ver3 Certificate.
 VMware Certified Professional 5 – Data Center Virtualization (VCP5-DCV)
 CCIE R&S w
 CCNP- R&S.
 CCNP- Security.
ADDITIONAL TRAINING
 CISM Attendance Course
 Microsoft Operation Framework (MOF v4)
 MCITP and Exchange 2007
 Palo Alto & Fortigate Administration
 Data Center Designing Awareness.

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Career history
Oct 2011 – Present:
Corporate Name: PUBLIC PENSION AGENCY (PPA).
Department: Network & Security Advisor.
Location: Riyadh.
Job Duties:
 Secures the organization and its people by maintaining an intelligence network; designing and
implementing policies and strategies of organization security (including internal investigations);
safeguarding executives, Board of Directors, and their immediate families from random or
premeditated threats; preventing workplace violence; implementing and securing technological
protection systems, proprietary information protection, and computer security; providing crisis
management; maintaining environmental health and safety.
 Determines executive protection requirements by gathering and reviewing pre-planning travel
intelligence information; issuing travel advisories; modifying travel itineraries; making travel
security arrangements, including guards, secure accommodations, and security-equipped
transportation.
 Develops new security programs by strategically reviewing existing security programs;
conducting comprehensive studies of present and anticipated threats; evaluating, analyzing, and
continuously reviewing collection activity results on potential threats against the organization.
 Provides protection of organization assets, capital assets, and proprietary assets by providing
consulting support; building consensus on the appropriateness and timeliness of physical and
electronic monitoring improvements or enhancements; developing and implementing changes.
 Provides crisis management team and disaster management team leadership by providing
state-of-the art expertise; collecting, analyzing, and summarizing intelligence data and trends;
developing cutting-edge strategies.
 Maintains protection systems by developing and refining philosophy and design standards
relating to protection systems (burglar, fire, and duress alarms and video coverage); re-defining
procedures (international and domestic travel, kidnap, ransom, event security); examining
organization security emergency response systems; reviewing building design (construction,
modifications, walls, fences, and landscape); making recommendations for physical plant security
improvements.
 Provides information by reviewing, developing, and continually refining security operation's
operational manuals and procedures; briefing executives and managers on security-related issues.
 Secures information systems by dealing with electronic threats and vulnerabilities, privacy
issues, physical security, and operations continuity; applying security forensic technologies;
monitoring network and systems management processes; maintaining security platforms with
certification authority, and state-of-the-art security management products, tools, and offerings.
 Updates job knowledge by maintaining "expert" status in the security industry; applying state-
of-the art security measures; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional
publications; maintaining personal networks; being sought as an authority to contribute to the
security industry body of knowledge; participating in professional organizations.
 Enhances organization security reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and
different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments; keeping the
organization and its people out of harm's way.
 Managing Network Security Systems “ Fortigate , Palo Alto , cisco Firewalls “ Cisco routers,
ASA, SRX FW, SSL-VPN and ACS.

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 Ensuring all IT systems, infrastructures, server, networks and securities are running to
An efficient level.
 Guide to the preparation of policies and procedures for information security.
 Project Manager for Disaster Recovery (DR Site).
April .2006 till May 2011
Corporate Name: Ministry of Islamic Affairs (MOIA).
Department: Network & Security Specialist + Project Manager
Location: Riyadh
Roles and Responsibilities:
 Re-engineering of enterprise network designs to meet increasing customer demands
 Designed and implemented Internal Computing network infrastructure including Gigabit Ethernet
backbone,
 100mbs desktop switching
 Directly responsible for mentoring and assisting fourteen Network, System, and Application.
 Managing / providing support to ALL Ministry branches Locations across the kingdom
 Responsible for internal network serving more than 1000 nodes, 25 servers, 50 edge switch, 2 core
Switches Cisco routers, ASA, IPS, MARS, LMS, CCM, Unity, GWs
 Trouble shooting and problem resolution of all customer network difficulties
 7Documentation of all the work done using Visio, Excel and MS word.
April .2005 till April 2006
Corporate Name: ICT Training Center.
Department: CCNA, CCNP Technical Instructor
Location: Cairo, Egypt
Roles and Responsibilities:
Providing Cisco training courses in various locations including:-
 ICT Training center - Cairo.
 Engineering Syndicate – Cairo
 Faculty of engineers "Ain shams University"
July. 2003 till April 2006
Corporate Name: Ministry of Foreign Trade & Industry.
Department: System & Network Engineer.
Location: Cairo, Egypt
Roles and Responsibilities:
 Participating as a team member in designing and implementing the network infrastructure of Ministry of
 Foreign trade & industry from starting till the final installation of the equipments which Includes:

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 - Installation & configuration of the edge & core switches.
 - Installation & configuration of the Existing routers.
 - Installation & configuration of the PIX devices.
 - Installation & configuration of the DC, Exchange, ISA, Antivirus servers, SMS 2003.
 - Installation and troubleshooting of OS, Networking software and application packages
 - Installation and troubleshooting of Internet connections, E-Mail etc
 - Trouble shooting day-to-day problems in PC/LAN
References All Available on request
Languages
- Arabic: Mother Tongue
- English: Very Good